If one wants to do street food in Cebu, one must do "pungko-pungko". You will typically find your pungko-pungko vendor by looking for crowds of people 'squatting' around a box, bowl or pot of usually deep-fried foods and hanging rice parcels.
To order, just pull up a seat, point at what you want, and then your vendor will chop the various bits for you, dish up some spiced vinegar and - for hygiene reasons - give you a small plastic bag to use as a glove (you eat with your hands, of course). So what do you eat at pungko-pungko? You can have lumpia (spring rolls), longganisa (sausages), hot dogs, kwek-kwek (battered quail eggs), meatballs, fishballs, fried chicken... and the prized food of them all, ginabot (deep-fried pig mesentery, which we call chicharon bulaklak in Tagalog because it 'flowers' when fried). Sounds scary, but it is a beautifully crunchy tasty deep-fried piece of nose-to-tail goodness!
And accompanying everything is puso, or hanging rice parcels. Rice is packed in these intricately-woven palm leaf parcels and cooked until a firm dumpling is formed, making for an easy-to-eat and easy-to-carry item for any outdoor meal, especially pungko-pungko.
For one of the more 'upscale' versions, head on over to Pungko-Pungko sa Fuente - and you will come to a deeper and more delicious understanding of Cebuano street food culture.
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